中国及附近地区闪电实时显示 About the living lightning monitoring in China and nearby areas

[Gkikas LGPZ]

@idefix37
AFAIK, Blitzortung has no station in China.
Lightnings over China come from Blitzortung participating stations
from nearby countries and cities. e.g. Tokyo, Okinawa, Macao, Hong Kong etc.

@TZ
As I see in the first screenshot (www.cnlightning.cn), there are a lot of stations in China.
It is a nice idea to include those chinese lightning data in Windy (if freely available).

[Gkikas LGPZ]

... lightnings in location A
are not recorded (observed) by Blitzortung participating stations.
P.S. Windy's radar data over China
are much better than those from www.cnlightning.cn

[idefix37]

@Gkikas-LGPZ
Thanks for this detailed explanation.

[Gkikas LGPZ]

@追捕小螳螂
Blitzortung uses these lightning detectors (hardware cost 300€)
http://en.blitzortung.org/cover_your_area.php
May we know something about those used by cnlightning ?

[追捕小螳螂]

@Gkikas-LGPZ Cnlightning is provided by the government. All the stations are built by the government, and cnlightning is free to the public.
if you want to know more about cnlightning, you can read the specification（http://www.cnlightning.cn/docs/UserDoc.pdf）(the language is chinese)
Just hope these data can make supplement for windyty

[jmh2002]

@Korina Can http://www.cnlightning.cn/ be a another source for Windy if Blitzortung doesn't have coverage in China?

[Gkikas LGPZ]

@追捕小螳螂
Thank you!
I'll try to read the lightning manual, "with a little help from ... Google!"

[tomacat]

@追捕小螳螂

Cnlightning is provided by the government.

"Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" obviously is not a department of government. I suspect there is a copyright problem. But thanks for you share the website. ("Post content was flagged as spam by Akismet.com", false positive, I have to delete some words.)

[追捕小螳螂]

@tomacat Exactly CAS is a public institution, but I'm not sure about the copyright, it should be easy to apply for a data interface. 😄

[tomacat]

Looks like the websites using Sginalr and must have a connectionToken for real-time thunder information, I don't believe these is data is free to use.

$ curl 'http://www.cnlightning.cn/signalr/connect?transport=serverSentEvents&clientProtocol=1.5&connectionToken=[redacted]&connectionData=%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%22thunderdatahub%22%7D%5D&tid=0' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0' -H 'Accept: text/event-stream' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --compressed -H 'Referer: http://www.cnlightning.cn/CnlightningBuilder/index.html' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Pragma: no-cache' -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache'
data: initialized

data: {"C":"d-CFA4C47A-B,29F4B|8,13F|9,C","S":1,"M":[]}

data: {"C":"d-CFA4C47A-B,29F4C|8,13F|9,C","M":[{"H":"ThunderDataHub","M":"addthunderdata","A":[{"LATITUDE":28.996,"LONGITUDE":105.658,"INTENS":-14.9,"SLOPE":0.0,"ERROR":0.3,"LOCATION":"6","MINISECOND":773345,"PROVINCE":"四川省","DISTRICT":"泸州市","COUNTRY":"泸县","USEDIDS":"201,109,198,197","CG_IC":"IC","HEIGHT":4.036,"DATETIME":"2020-05-05T23:09:03","HOUR":23,"MINUTE":9,"SECOND":3}]}]}

data: {"C":"d-CFA4C47A-B,29F4D|8,13F|9,C","M":[{"H":"ThunderDataHub","M":"addthunderdata","A":[{"LATITUDE":28.967,"LONGITUDE":105.638,"INTENS":-25.5,"SLOPE":0.0,"ERROR":9.7,"LOCATION":"6","MINISECOND":249697,"PROVINCE":"四川省","DISTRICT":"泸州市","COUNTRY":"泸县","USEDIDS":"197,36,202,264,110,54,32,103","CG_IC":"IC","HEIGHT":1.652,"DATETIME":"2020-05-05T23:09:03","HOUR":23,"MINUTE":9,"SECOND":3}]}]}

data: {"C":"d-CFA4C47A-B,29F4E|8,13F|9,C","M":[{"H":"ThunderDataHub","M":"addthunderdata","A":[{"LATITUDE":27.951,"LONGITUDE":110.318,"INTENS":-16.8,"SLOPE":0.0,"ERROR":0.7,"LOCATION":"6","MINISECOND":6103677,"PROVINCE":"湖南省","DISTRICT":"怀化市","COUNTRY":"辰溪县","USEDIDS":"209,206,101,166,243","CG_IC":"IC","HEIGHT":15.223,"DATETIME":"2020-05-05T23:09:03","HOUR":23,"MINUTE":9,"SECOND":3}]}]}

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